- Regulations for Doctoral Studies
- I. General provisions
- II. Doctoral Studies
- II.1. Learners in doctoral studies
- II.2. Supervision
- II.3. Filling a vacant student place
- II.4. Organisation of study
- II.4.1. General principles
- II.4.2. Period of study, suspension of doctoral studies and changes to the period of study of doctoral students matriculated to doctoral programmes opened from the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.4.3. Workload, academic leave and extending the period of study of doctoral students matriculated to doctoral curricula opened before the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.4.4. Individual plan
- II.5. Progress review
- II.5.1. Progress review schedule
- II.5.2. Progress review committee
- II.5.3. Documents required for progress review
- II.5.4. Progress review meeting
- II.5.5. Decisions of the progress review committee
- II.5.5.1. Decisions of the progress review committee regarding learners in doctoral studies in doctoral programmes opened from the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.5.5.2. Decisions of the progress review committee regarding learners in doctoral studies in doctoral curricula opened before the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.5.6. Repeat progress review and appealing a progress review decision
- II.6. Exmatriculation
- III. Applying for Doctoral Degree
- III.1. Completion of the doctoral programme
- III.2. Council awarding doctoral degrees
- III.3. Requirements for doctoral candidate
- III.4. Requirements for doctoral thesis
- III.4.1. General requirements for doctoral thesis
- III.4.2. Doctoral thesis as an integrated collection of research publications
- III.4.3. Doctoral thesis as a monograph
- III.4.4. Requirement for research publications and the introductory chapter
- III.4.5. Requirements for patents, patent applications and applied solutions
- III.4.6. Structure of the doctoral thesis
- III.5. Allowing a doctoral thesis to be defended
- III.6. Publication of the doctoral thesis
- III.7. Defence of the doctoral thesis
- III.8. Applying for doctoral degree and defence of the doctoral thesis under a joint supervision agreement
- III.9. Contesting and overruling the decisions of the council awarding doctoral degrees
- III.10. Preservation of the doctoral thesis
- IV. Implementing provisions
- Study Regulations
- I. General provisions
- II. Courses and modules
- III. Following the curriculum
- IV. Assessment
- V. Completion of studies
- VI. Filling vacant student places and rematriculation
- VII. Additional rights and obligations of students
- VII.1. Notification
- VII.2. Counselling
- VII.3. Making adaptations in studies
- VII.4. Giving feedback
- VII.5. Studying at other higher education institutions in Estonia
- VII.6. Studying at higher education institutions abroad
- VII.7. Academic leave
- VII.8. Extension of studies
- VII.9. Good academic practice
- VII.10. Contesting decisions concerning the organisation of studies
- Annex 1. Studying as a visiting student or external student
- Annex 2. Intensive study of Estonian
- Annex 3. Recognition of prior learning and professional experience
Regulations for Doctoral Studies and Study Regulations
IV.3. Assessment results
IV.3. Assessment results
58. The teaching staff member records the assessment result in the Study Information System, which is the basis for the accounting of study results. The teaching staff member in charge of the course is responsible for making sure that all assessment results have been recorded in the Study Information System.
59. If the student fails to appear for the assessment on the selected date, “not present” is recorded as the student’s result for that date. If the student fails to appear for the assessment on any of the regular assessment times, “not present” is recorded as the student’s result on the last regular assessment date at latest. Students who do not appear for the assessment are entitled to resit the assessment according to the general resit rules, except in the case of a group work resit that must be taken at the time assigned for the group.
60. The entry “not present” is revoked if the student did not appear for the assessment for a good reason and provides evidence of the good reason to the head of institute that manages the curriculum or the vice dean for academic affairs of the faculty that manages the curriculum within five working days from the date of assessment. The student who did not appear for the regular assessment for a good reason is entitled, by the decision of the head of institute that manages the curriculum or the vice dean for academic affairs of the faculty that manages the curriculum, to take the regular assessment on the date set by the teaching staff within two semesters following the semester in which the course took place; for students studying in the year system, within the term stipulated in clause 53. An application for admission to the assessment is submitted to the head of institute that manages the curriculum or to the vice dean for academic affairs of the faculty that manages the curriculum immediately after the good reason no longer applies.
61. If the student did not appear for the assessment without a good reason, one assessment time as specified in clause 87.3.3 is considered used.
62. The teaching staff member has the right not to allow a student to take the assessment if the student has not fulfilled the requirements prescribed in the course for taking the assessment, and to record a negative result in the report.
63. If a student fails to appear for the last part of a multi-part assessment with a good reason and receives an aggregate grade F, such result is revoked when the student provides evidence of the good reason to the head of institute that manages the curriculum or the vice dean for academic affairs of the faculty that manages the curriculum within five working days from the date the last part of the assessment. The assessment and the resit are taken as provided in clause 60.
64. The deadline for announcing assessment results is specified in the course, taking into account the nature of the assessment, the number of students participating in it and other course-related matters. The deadline is set so that the assessment results can be entered in the Study Information System within two weeks after assessment and on the fifth working day at the latest before the resit in the respective course, and before the end of the semester as established in the academic calendar. The results of the resit are entered no later than on the day preceding the beginning of the next semester.
65. Study results taken into account based on an RPL decision or based on the study plan of a student who studied at another higher education institution as a visiting student are entered in the Study Information System within four working days from making the RPL decision or submitting the study results. For completion of the curriculum, the study results taken into account based on the RPL decision are recognised in the semester of the RPL decision and the study results taken into account based on a study plan are recognised in the semester the study results are submitted.
66. If the student has received a negative result in the regular assessment and the resit, the student must register again for the course to complete the course and fulfil the requirements set for completing the course again, except for the compulsory courses in the year system. The student who has received a negative result in one course four times, or in the year system, a negative result in one compulsory course three times, is exmatriculated according to clause 87.3.3.
